1st Update from the team!

Arrived at Base camp finally at 11.30pm, tired, cold, and all we craved was our down sleeping bags and thermarest. Woke up after a leisurely lie in this morning, WOW! 10am, to see how amazing our base camp is. We are currently situated in a beautiful valley about 3 hours walk away from the glacier we are hoping to explore. At the foot of the valley in full view of base camp is the beach in which the YE’s will be kayaking off.



Today was spent organising and setting up our base camp. Food and toilet were our main priority. This involved much lugging of rather heavy kit approximately 1km uphill, our fitness is already being put to the test. We have all seemed to establish our food time jobs Sarah and Nikki as culinary genii, Master Stove Mender has fallen to Tim, and our Pot Shiners are Steve and Katie with the “frost bitten” fingers. No baths here the water is freezing.

Tomorrow we hope to head up the valley on a recce of a new base camp specifically for us Young Leaders. We are hoping to bivvi under some nice boulders or in a cave. Our only friends the reindeer.